Quotessence
Home / Authors / Elihu Palmer Books

Elihu Palmer Books

Author

Related Quotes

“Seven hundred thousand men are said to have perished in the first two expeditions, which had been thus commenced and carried on by the pious zeal of the Christian church, and in the total amount, several million were found numbered with the dead: the awful effects of religious fanaticism presuming upon the aid of heaven.”

MenFirstsSaidTwoChristianEvilFoundHeavenChurchReligiousMillionsEffectsAmountThousandHundredSevenAidsAwfulZealFanaticismPiousChristian ChurchExpeditionsPresuming
Book:Principles of Nature Or A Developement of the Moral Causes of Hapiness and Misery Among the Human Species
Create image

“The obscurity, incredibility and obscenity, so conspicuous in many parts of it, would justly condemn the works of a modern writer. It contains a mixture of inconsistency and contradiction; to call which the word of God, is the highest pitch of extravagance: it is to attribute to the deity that which any person of common sense would blush to confess himself the author of.”

PersonsReligionCommonModernHighestCommon SenseContradictionWord Of GodAttributesMixturesDeitiesObscurityExtravaganceInconsistencyObscenity
Author:Elihu Palmer
Create image